Bio-Hazard

Spur of the moment run I did last night, was fun, took longer than I was expecting but, seemed everyone had fun. Good practice for Thursday.

   It's Touristville! What's that mean? It means that this street isn't as crappy as the rest of the Redmond Barrens Slums. It means that there's electricity, and AR spam, and people who are actually clean and dressed nice. It means that there are trolls, orks, dwarves, elves, humans, and vampires (oh my) all intermingling with one another. At this point the evening is just getting started. The sun's been down for a little while and the streets are lit up. It's still a little early all things considered, before the clubs are really getting going. For whatever reason all of you find yourself out near The Skeleton club, neutral ground, where so many people go to party, where J's meet, and people hook up... you get the picture.

Marcus Daiden is dressed in his finest clothing: A black synth-leather coat, a pair of dark blue jeans and a disheveled looking button up shirt. To top it all off, he's got his trusty weather beaten fedora to hide the mess of hair on his head. As he comes to a stop, the mid-twenties human takes the opportunity to look about the immediate area as if assessing his surroundings.

Bubblegum is practicing her skateboarding in the parking lot, waiting for things to heat up. She's wearing her usual sim-inspired pink samurai getup, and she's got an active PAN advertising her profile, listing her likes, dislikes, and her desire to meet friends and "business associates," a not too cleverly veiled ad for shadowrunning services.

Keth revs his Harley as he drives it down the street by the club, going a little slower than usual with Sparrow set right behind him and locals crossing the street at odd times. "Hmm..nicer neighborhood than I would've expected for one of Leon's friends to set up shop.." He says over his comm to Sparrow, likely muffled under his bike's helmet.

Sparrow is looking side to side as Keth drives. Even sitting in the higher rear seat it's not easy for her to see around him. Rather than her habitual pants and jacket she's wearing an Urban Explorer suit in black and purple since it's better for riding, in case, y'know, life happens. Yellow streaks break up the sheet of black hair blowing behind her. "Oh hey, hold up..."

Hellborn is hanging out in the front of the skeleton. In the list of 'dwarves, elves, humans, and vampires (oh my)' he would be the left out mummy. At least the parts that stick out of his coat or shirt. His usual kevlar mask is tied onto his left shoulder. Hellborn is currently leaning up against the building close to the bouncers.

A flashy racing bike comes zooming down the street with the sound of screeching tires as the rider pulls the bike into a skidding stop near the club. It isn't till the helmet is pulled from their head that a silky mane of black hair cascades down the back of the rider. The mane of hair showing off a rather nice eclipse before her face is revealed. She slips off the bike and looks around curiously now as if expecting someone.

If Daiden recognizes anyone that shows up, or information that gets flashed across his screen, he doesn't show any outward indication. After a few seconds, he decides the Skeleton just so happens to be the best looking place on this block and walks right on in.

Upas gets out of a tiny car of Fiat 500 or Smart proportions. The somewhat beatup car fits right in as does he. A young Caucasian with a healthy tan and short, blond-and-green hairdo that was the latest and greatest only a day ago. His clothes are plain, but they are clean and prove to the savvy eye that Kelmar is still in business. He takes a quick look about and ignores the series of squawks and other noises his comlink makes for a bit. Smiling just that bit, the breeder heads for the entrance of the club.

<OOC> Cobalt says, "I need perception tests from everyone (Intuition + Perception + Modifiers)"
GAME: Bubblegum rolls 11 dice: 1 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 (6 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Eclipse rolls 11 dice: 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 5 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Keth rolls 9 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 6 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Sparrow rolls 9 dice: 1 2 3 3 3 4 6 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Hellborn rolls 6 dice: 1 3 3 4 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Daiden rolls 7 dice: 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 (0 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Upas rolls 6 dice: 2 3 5 6 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>

   From out and about there are people starting to make their presence known, street performers are starting to set up shop and the like, anything to try and make a living. There are lines starting to form at the clubs as people start to trickle onto the streets and things begin to liven up. That's when it starts to get wierd...

   A young woman screams and is suddenly half pulled into a sewer grate, her would-be boyfriend trying to keep her from being dragged away... and it's not the only thing going on. There are people pointing at stuff, taking pictures with their commlinks, and the like. That's when it starts tho, the sound... skittering, little claws scraping on concrete, steel, and it's growing louder.

You paged Upas and Bubblegum with 'You two however notice that there are rats, normal harmless gutter rats starting to swarm up from the bottom of the sewers, they just haven't come out yet.'.

Bubblegum pulls up sharly on her smartwheeled skateboard. She immediately switches her PAN out of active mode, reaching up her headband to temporarily shut off her trodes to make sure nobody's messing with her via AR... Assuming all the sights and sounds are real, she stays still for now, eyes and ears on alert, body unnaturally motionless as she concentrates on being ready for whatever's happening, standing statuesque except for her jaw, which keeps chewing away on that pink bubblegum in her mouth...

Keth brings his bike to a halt at the sudden scream nearby, flipping his helmet's visor up and moving some of his usual driving AR out of the way, "What the heck..Suzie you hear that?" He asks, pulling over to the side of the road.

Hellborn pulls his mask off of his shoulder, and straps it back over his face. Moving away from the wall, the man starts to walk towards the commotion. After a few steps he stops, takes a deep breath, and begins to focus himself.

Upas fingers at his left ear, then the right. At the same time, he tilts his head forward and to the left before he frowns very visibly and takes a few quick steps away from the nearest source of unwelcome noise and ruckus.

Sparrow's hair abruptly fades from the black-and-yellow to a light grey tinted with blue. One arm snaps to attention even though it should be holding her to the bike. "Right over there! Look out! Careful!"
"Awe c'mon, I'm not dressed that badly, am I? I'm supposed to meet someone in there. I should be on the li--." Realizing that the bouncers aren't paying attention to him, Daiden turns toward the street to see what the frak they are looking at.... Just in time to hear Sparrow shout and looks.

Eclipse stands around looking for something but the scream catches her attention for a time, putting down the helmet before hearing Sparrow shout too. Her eyes narrow to get a better look now while her hearing isn't that great after the ride.

   People are starting to notice now, from EVERY sewer grate there is more and more roiling mass of something, brown, black, grey... you name it... and then it happens. The woman who is being half-pulled into the sewer grate's screams cut off as a horde of rats, simple, normal, sewer rats come boiling out of every sewer grate but one. The one in the middle of the road. It pops open and out climbs a haggard looking human wearing what was once a fine armored suit, holding a briefcase clutched to his chest. He's got obvious cybereyes of solid silver with the renraku symbol in the center of them, and he has a visible datajack plugged in. Over AR -everyone- gets hit with a spam message that is simply: "HELP! 20 Grand to protect me!"

Sparrow is already off the bike and running toward the man who just came out of the grate. One hand reaches up to her head, touching the ribbon on her forehead and the other stretches out toward the man even as she shakes her head and practically cringes, muttering something to herself and waving her outstretched hand in a bit of a circle.

Bubblegum springs into action immediately skating through (and over) the sea of rats on her smartwheeled plank, drawing her sword in her left hand and pistol in her right. She pulls up next to the guy with the case. "20? That's all your life is worth chummer? Well I'll tell ya, mine's worth more, and I ain't gonna risk it for no pathetic sum like that... Nor are any of these other good folks, I'd wager."

Hellborn ignores the rats, as he heads towards the man who just popped up from the sewer grate. He has to push his way through a few onlookers, but he's on his way.

<OOC> Cobalt says, "Give me a negotiation roll with +2 dice Bubblegum, Sparrow roll me some magics."

GAME: Bubblegum rolls 15 Edge dice: 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 6
GAME: --Rerolling 6's: 5 (1 Rerolled, 5 Total Hits) <Verified>

Eclipse abandons her bike for the time as she rushes towards the man, wrinkling her nose at the rats that swarm out of the sewers but still approaches regardless.

Keth almost recoils at the sudden screaming message covering his AR field, moving it to the side for the moment as he searches for the source. His cybereyes under his glasses zoom in on the haggard man climbing out of the manhole, the Renraku logo standing out plain as day..he has half a mind to turn his bike right around..before he notices that his bike is suddenly lighter, seeing Sparrow running up to the man. He mutters as he puts down the kickstand and heads that way too.

GAME: Sparrow rolls 10 dice: 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 4 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Daiden rolls 13 dice: 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Sparrow rolls 1 dice: 2 (0 Hits) <Verified>

Upas is about to go back to his micro automobile when a high priority message makes him look at the simply cased device. Two flips on the controls and it is displayed. He draws down the back of lower jaw and sucks in some air, fast enough to make it a twitch of sorts. He then exhales, walking over to the carpet of rodents, his eyes turning a yellowly black with silver rings under the contacts once more.

GAME: Daiden rolls 10 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>

Daiden, instead of moving to help the hapless soul stands still and looks like he's trying to poop his pants for a moment... Or concentrating -really- hard. Apparently satisfied, a relaxed look momentarily washes over his face. He's once again looking at the man with the case.

GAME: Sparrow rolls 11 dice: 1 1 2 2 2 4 4 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 10 dice: 1 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>

   The briefcase is clutched tighter to his chest, "Please!" He shouts at the kid, well by kid he means Bubblegum, "That's all I have! Twenty-five! That's -everything-!" And then he is floating, and he looks startled as all hell, trying to run in mid air but he's under control of Sparrows magic. "No! Have to run! Protect me! Get me down!"

   People are of course going crazy trying to run from the rats, the guy who lost hold of his would-be girlfriend running with them but... that's when it gets -bad-. Something bigger is coming out of the drains now... Judging by the sounds.

<OOC> Cobalt says, "I need visual perception checks at -3 dice please"

GAME: Keth rolls 6 dice: 2 3 4 6 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Sparrow rolls 6 dice: 1 1 1 4 5 6 (2 Hits) GLITCH!!! <Verified>
GAME: Upas rolls 3 dice: 1 3 5 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Eclipse rolls 8 dice: 1 2 2 4 5 5 5 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Hellborn rolls 3 dice: 1 2 3 (0 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Daiden rolls 3 dice: 1 1 4 (0 Hits) CRITICAL GLITCH!!! <Verified>
GAME: Bubblegum rolls 8 dice: 1 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>

You paged Bubblegum and Eclipse with 'You two are the only two that actually notice the rats. Big rats. Not normal rats. Horrid pasty looking devil rats. At least a dozen of them, coming from every which way and seem directly headed towards the group... or maybe the floating guy'.

Eclipse stops dead in her tracks as she looks towards the sewer nearest her now. She hisses at the sight of the mutant rats, slowly she draws out her ares alpha assault riffle taking aim with a frown of concentration with her gleamming eyes. "Becareful!", she shouts to those that are nearby.

GAME: To (Bubblegum, Cobalt) Bubblegum rolls 16 dice: 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: To (Bubblegum, Cobalt) Bubblegum rolls 14 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 (8 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 1 2 4 4 5 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 2 dice: 1 6 (1 Hit) GLITCH!!! <Verified>
GAME: To (Bubblegum, Cobalt) Bubblegum rolls 13 dice: 1 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 1 3 4 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 2 dice: 6 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>

Bubblegum winks at man, twirling her sword with a flourish. "Alright boss!" Suddenly out of the corner of her eye, she sees something new -- not just rats, devil rats! In the blink of an eye, her hand darts inside her jacket like a striking snake, deftly pulling out her lacquered pink Ruger Thunderbolt. "Thudthudthudthudthud!" barks the suppressed weapon, one rat's brains splattering against the pavement, another just getting winged by explosive ammo.

   With the death of the first rat the other rats react by putting on more speed, one hobbling as it's wounded but it's surely running AWAY from the sewer for some reason. With attention drawn to them in such fashion all of the devilrats can be seen, 11 of them all charging from various entrance points onto the road, no more than 2 from a sewer grate tho... and they ALL seem hell-bent on charging towards the group... or maybe that floating briefcase!

<OOC> Cobalt says, "Now! I need general inits."
GAME: Bubblegum rolls 14 dice: 1 2 2 2 2 3 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 (8 Hits) <Verified>
<OOC> Bubblegum says, "22, personal best XD"
GAME: Sparrow rolls 5 dice: 2 2 2 6 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Eclipse rolls 14 dice: 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 6 6 6 (5 Hits) <Verified>
<OOC> Sparrow says, "7 for me"
GAME: Hellborn rolls 8 dice: 1 1 3 4 5 6 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Daiden rolls 9 dice: 3 3 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 (7 Hits) <Verified>
<OOC> Daiden says, "HA!"
<OOC> Daiden says, "16."
<OOC> Hellborn says, "So, 12 plus Adrenaline surge."
GAME: Upas rolls 6 dice: 1 1 4 4 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
<OOC> Cobalt says, "Keth?"
GAME: Keth rolls 9 dice: 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
<OOC> Keth says, "Sorry."
<OOC> Cobalt says, "Alright. I am going to split them up into pairs."
GAME: Cobalt rolls 10 dice: 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 10 dice: 1 3 4 4 4 5 5 6 6 6 (5 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 10 dice: 1 1 2 3 5 5 5 5 6 6 (6 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 10 dice: 1 2 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 6 (5 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 10 dice: 1 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 10 dice: 1 1 1 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 (4 Hits) <Verified>
<OOC> Daiden says, "Pair 1."
<OOC> Cobalt says, "So we have! For Phase 1: Hellborn, Bubblegum, Eclipse, Devil Rats 5 & 6, Daiden, All the rest of the rats except for gimpy first pair, Keth, Last 2 rats, Upas and Sparrow. I have Bubble, Eclipse, Daiden, and Keth having 3 passes each, anyone else have extra passes?"
Upas pages: 2 here.
You paged Upas with 'Right sorry'.

GAME: Hellborn rolls 8 dice: 1 2 2 2 2 3 6 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Hellborn rolls 10 dice: 2 2 2 4 4 4 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 3 dice: 1 2 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>

GAME: Bubblegum rolls 16 dice: 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>

Hellborn reacts to the swarm of rats with a sudden surge of energy. He channels a spell into one of the nearest devil rats. The bolt strikes the rat, but it seems to be still coming...

GAME: Cobalt rolls 3 dice: 3 4 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>

GAME: Bubblegum rolls 13 dice: 1 1 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 2 2 2 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 2 dice: 4 4 (0 Hits) <Verified>

Bubblegum stands rigid in her best imitation of gun kata, her pretty pink gun radidly spraying explosive rounds, two more rats dispatched. Her barrel smoke, Bubblegum ejects her clip with a smartlinked command, letting it fall to the pavement with a satisfied crack of her gum.

   Two of the rats are faster than the others and they bolt through legs, not attacking anyone at all strangely enough. They get underneath the floating guy and start to jump up to try and grab onto him... in order to climb! Strangely, tho the guy is screaming, the devil rats climb up onto his shoulders, one climbing up to try and get on his head and perch and the other rats are moving in...
   Mr. Floaty Bobble-Corp, is of course, screaming his head right off!

GAME: Daiden rolls 13 dice: 1 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 3 dice: 4 6 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Daiden rolls 10 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>

Daiden watches as the chaos explodes. Seeing that one of the rescuers is a mojo slinger too and.... Damnit, Bubblegum, she's cool as shit... anyway, Daiden isn't to be out done. With fingers pressed together like a gun, he points to the rat posted on the poor corpers head, concentrates, and watches as it writhes in pain after he 'squeezes the trigger.'

   All the rest of the rats are avoiding the shadow runners and everyone else! They come barelling underfoot, avoiding people and every last one of them goes jumping onto the floating corper who is screaming bloody murder... maybe they're trying to weigh him down? But they aren't attacking... for whatever reason...

GAME: Keth rolls 10 dice: 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Keth rolls 1 dice: 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 8 dice: 2 3 3 3 3 4 5 5 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 2 dice: 3 4 (0 Hits) <Verified>
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Keth was a little slow on the draw this time, and he's not about to start shooting with all the rats on Mr. Briefcase, so he's careful as he takes a thwap at the one he think Daiden hit, but doesn't quite get it, "Just..hold still!"

GAME: Cobalt rolls 3 dice: 3 6 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 2 dice: 1 6 (1 Hit) GLITCH!!! <Verified>

The Rat was just stubborn, as the shockhand hits it, it zzzaaaapppps and then falls off, twitching to the ground. Poor devilrat.

GAME: Upas rolls 10 dice: 1 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 3 dice: 3 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>

GAME: Sparrow rolls 11 dice: 1 1 1 1 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Sparrow rolls 9 dice: 1 1 2 3 4 4 4 6 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>

Upas is close enough to see every aspect of the rats now, a good few dozen yards away. He furrows his brows, his nostrils flaring, and lets out a low, low if silent growling noise, jerking his head forward as if headbutting something. At and on the corp-looking guy, the biggest rat's left eye explodes and it experiences a wild seizure.

   And the remaining rats jump up onto the guy, but not enough to bring him down to the ground, they jockey for position as high up as they can get. Strangely, even as they are attacked, hurt, and otherwise killed... they don't attack back. If anything... they look scared, if a devil rat were any sort of expressive anyways.... The poor corper is screaming, his armored suit holding up under devil rat claws, for now, but any man with 32 Kilo's of vicious devil rat on them, who isn't paid for that kind of thing, would likely be doing the same. "Is this how you make your money?! GET THEM OFF! They're GONNA KILL ME!"

GAME: Upas rolls 8 dice: 2 2 2 2 3 6 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>

Sparrow, holding one hand upright facing the man and holding him (apparently not too) safely above the ground, speaks something in gutteral Or'zet, her eyes closing for just a moment. She shivers once and winces, hair turning a shade whiter and more blue, and opens her eyes again, widening them to better see the suit. "What's down there?! What's after you?" she shouts as calmly as possible.

GAME: Bubblegum rolls 13 dice: 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 8 dice: 1 1 4 4 5 5 5 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>

Bubblegum considers for half a second whether she should obey the boss or investigate further, and she sides with the money. Dropping into her kendo stance, the teen swipes her sword, backhand style, at one of the rats. The little bugger scurries around to the other side of the boss, however, causing Bubble to snap her gum in annoyance.

GAME: Daiden rolls 13 dice: 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 (6 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Daiden rolls 10 dice: 1 1 2 2 2 3 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>

"Zap!" Hah, Daiden kneels down and does some sort of bazooka motion. THIS time the rat he aims at dies as he concentrates with his mind bullets.

GAME: Keth rolls 11 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 8 dice: 1 3 4 4 5 5 5 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>

Keth frowns under his bike helmet as another one just wiggles out of his grasp, muttering something about a damn glitchy cyberarm.

GAME: Sparrow rolls 11 dice: 1 1 2 2 2 3 4 5 5 5 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 3 dice: 3 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>

GAME: Upas rolls 10 dice: 1 2 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 6 (5 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Upas rolls 8 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 3 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 1 dice: 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>

Sparrow frowns at the floating man even as she keeps him up in the air. 'Shaking' him to get the rats to fall of is only going to make him more nervous.. the things are obviously not attacking him, anyhow. Her free hand is held outstretched toward him with the palm facing him in a universal gesture of calming and she favors him with what is intended as a comforting smile. "Sir, just relax please, they're not going to hurt you, they're as scared as you are." Another shiver goes through her as she tries not to let it show. "Can you tell me again what's down there?"

GAME: Keth rolls 11 dice: 1 1 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 (7 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 8 dice: 1 2 2 2 3 4 6 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 2 dice: 2 3 (0 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 2 dice: 1 4 (0 Hits) CRITICAL GLITCH!!! <Verified>

Upas moves his slender frame by another step and stands more firmly. The bestial noise is still there and human male narrows his eyes into slits, drawing his noise up. This time, he lets out a noise that is almost a quip that is full of derision, no, contempt. The result is more final now. Blood comes gushing from the biggest rat's ears and past its whiskers. It falls dead from the soaring credstick.

GAME: Bubblegum rolls 13 dice: 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 8 dice: 1 2 3 3 3 5 5 5 (3 Hits) <Verified>

Keth emits a large *jolt* from his obvious cyberhand this time as he connects with the rat, picking it off the suit this time towards the open grate, "They're like..half gone now." He tries to help Sparrow console.

Bubblegum switches her grip and stabs at another rat, but they're still scurrying about like mad little beasts. Bubble's face twitches with frustration as she swordsmanship is obviously off tonight...

   There are half a dozen devil rats jockeying for position on the corper who is at least calmed down by the spell that was cast upon him. "Get them off of me, please... they're going to turn me into a Ghoul! I've seen it happen, they're infected! They'll infect all of us!"

GAME: Cobalt rolls 3 dice: 2 6 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>

Daiden opens his mouth several times then closes it. He obviously has no clue as to what the frak is going on. "What are the rodents so afraid of that they climb up that man?" He's apparently asking loud enough, but there is no target for his question.

Bubblegum wrinkles her nose and steps back for the moment, reloading her pistol with a new clip. "Calm down pops, they're clearly not hurting you. Don't they hafta bite you to infect you?"

Hellborn takes a deep breath, almost sounding irritated as he approaches the now rat covered corper. "At least..." he says to the nearby group, "Somebody ... pick him ... up. Brush him ... off."

Sparrow's hair, which had been shifting through green toward yellow, goes almost white at the mention of ghouls. "They're all.. we'll get them off of you, as quickly as we can, don't worry.." Her face doesn't believe her though as she slowly lowers the man toward the runners. "Here, you're all right, I'll bring you down, there we go."

   The man starts to panic again as his fear overrides the magic that was used on him, "They're COMING!" He shouts and he starts to run, right for Daiden and the doorway to the Skeleton, which the bouncers are currently trying to shut and lock to keep the rats out! Yes, the corper is trying to run, while covered in devil rats...

<OOC> Cobalt says, "And I need Audio perception tests from everyone, full bonusses."
GAME: Daiden rolls 6 dice: 2 3 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Hellborn rolls 6 dice: 1 2 3 4 4 5 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Bubblegum rolls 9 dice: 1 1 3 4 4 5 5 5 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Sparrow rolls 4 dice: 2 3 3 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Keth rolls 9 dice: 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 (0 Hits) <Verified>

Upas watches the goingson somewhat curiously. He stands his tallest now -which is not that impressive- and crosses most of the distance to the man with the rat fans. More or less to himself, he comments somewhat nasally, "Popularity is an odd thing. is it not? Some go inside and have none..."

GAME: Eclipse rolls 11 dice: 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Upas rolls 6 dice: 1 2 5 6 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>

You paged Daiden, Bubblegum, and Upas with 'You hear what is most definately, screams, feral, bestial, animalistic, coming from the sewers...'.

You paged Upas with 'As you approach the corper, you start to feel -hungry-... really -hungry-...'.

Upas pages: Yay... Wink

Bubblegum blows a bubble with her gum, decisively shoving her sword back into the sheath tucked inside her coat. To replace it, she pulls out an Armtech MGL-6 grenade launcher. "You guys get away from all the sewer entrances... At least 5 meters away, probably more if you wanna be safe."

Daiden narrows his eyes and moves out of the flailing guys path. At least he's safe for now. Even above the screaming guy, Daiden's ears pick something up and he looks down. "What she said!" He shouts immediately afteR Bubblegum.

Eclipse doesn't know what happened to herself for a minute there, maybe it was some horror from her childhood or maybe it was a girl thing. Either way she just kinda froze and now she's coming out of it with her rifle still in hand.

Upas turns his head to the side for less then a second and states precisely, "Mr. Silvereyes, if you come back to all of those who helped you, you will be safe." He adds, a tad too soothingly, "Very, very safe." He even smiles merrily and it is very genuine, definitely moreso than what he presented in the parking lot.

Sparrow glances ahead at the suit's intended path.. those bounces aren't about to let him in like that. Shaking her head, she runs toward the suit, hoping to catch up to him before he gets too close to the bouncers.

GAME: Upas rolls 9 dice: 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 5 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 1 4 6 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>

Daiden somehow manages to slip into the bar after a during all of the comotion.
Daiden has left.

Upas pages: Edge that?
You paged Upas with 'Roll 8'.
GAME: Upas rolls 8 dice: 1 1 2 3 4 4 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>

Hellborn stares after the corper for a few moments before turning around. "Could ... remove ... rats," he mutters to himself, "But ... would ... scare him ... more." He takes one look at Bubblegum's grenade launcher, and decides that he needs more firepower. He takes a deep breath to focus himself.

The rats cling to the corper like there was no tomorrow but after Daiden slips in the bouncers slam the doors shut and the lockin commences! Nope, corper isn't getting in there... and that's when everyone can hear it. Screams, feral screams, animalistic, bestial... hungry... and they're coming. The corper is practically screaming and clawing at the doors, and Sparrow if she doesn't get out of his way... and the rats just are along for the ride... until he gets to the wall, then they all bound up the walls, climbing and skittering for the roof... seems the corper was just the highest thing around at the time...

GAME: Bubblegum rolls 7 dice: 2 3 5 5 5 6 6 (5 Hits) <Verified>

Keth watches the rats skitter away, "I don't think it's gonna be that easy for us.." He says as he backs up with the rest of the 'runners, pulling his sword on the go..he has a feeling this is about to get pretty ugly.

GAME: Hellborn rolls 8 dice: 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 4 dice: 2 4 4 5 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Hellborn rolls 10 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>

Bubblegum's good sense manages to overcome her love for cheap thrills for once. "This is it folks, take some cover if you like your ass staying attached to your spine!" She hops onto her board and scoots a short distance away, taking cover behind a car such that she has a line on the sewer entrances without being too close to fire her minigrenades at them. "Also, someone keep an eye on rat boy so our payday doesn't walk."

GAME <Inventory>: Bubblegum has just used one of her EX-Explosive Rounds. <Verified>

Sparrow gets the frag out of the way of the suit.. she doesn't want devil rats all over her. Quickly she looks around and her face (and her hair, in an unlikely color of light orange) lights up. "Sir, we're going to get you out of here. Come with us please." she relates as though death and ghouldom wasn't bearing down on everyone.

Eclipse backs up to bring some distance between her and the rats, rifle at the ready finally and clearly more awake.

<OOC> Cobalt says, "Alright. There are three nearby sewer entrances large forms could come out of. One the corper came out of. One in the parking lot to The Skeleton, and one on the other side of the street."
<OOC> Cobalt says, "The one in the parking lost is about 20 meters from the center of the road one in front of the Skeleton. The other one is 25 meters away and blocked from view of the first exit by the corner of a building."
<OOC> Cobalt says, "there are obviously, more, but those three are closest."

Hellborn reaches into himself and grabs at the magic as he makes a call into the astral. His hands shake with the strain, but then the results of his efforts pay off as the Fire Elemental materializes in front of its bandaged master. "Monster ... coming," Hellborn mutters to the elemental, "Need ... protection ... be ... ready."

(To: Cobalt and Keth) Sparrow pages: Over Keth's PAN, Sparrow's message pops up <<We get him to the bike, you ride him away, I disappear. We make it.>>

(To: Sparrow and Cobalt) Keth pages: <<I'm not keen on leaving you by yourself, and what about the others? Those ghouls are gonna go after somebody.>>

(To: Keth and Cobalt) Sparrow pages: <<..they should run.. *I'm* gonna run.. you think I'm staying here?!>>

The fire elemental takes on the form of a man in a tailored suit. He is, appropriately enough, smoking a cigar that never burns out. Flames flicker around him, and you can feel the heat he gives off.

Upas stares at the hapless sarariman for the better part of a moment. He crinkles his nose and shrugs before he forms a claw of sorts with his left hand to to shape more mana than the quick bursts he shot at the rat. He holds his breath for a moment and lets the silver and black splotch hover in his clawed hand for now, looking for a group of targets.

The first forms come bursting out the sewers, claws clinging to walls as the sickly pale, hairless stinking, death eating ugly nasty and of course, infectious, ghouls come barelling out of the sewer entrances. Three to an entry point.... and they look, less than sane, they focus on the corper, just like the rats did... but they look... -hungry-...

<OOC> Cobalt says, "I need First! Willpower from Upas"
GAME: Upas rolls 4 dice: 1 5 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
You paged Upas with 'That corper... is full of Essence,so much essence, and he's so scared... it'd be so easy to feast upon him.... it's getting harder to resist but... you manage to, for now.'.

<OOC> Cobalt says, "Initiatives please."
GAME: Sparrow rolls 8 dice: 1 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 (0 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Bubblegum rolls 14 dice: 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 (6 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Hellborn rolls 8 dice: 1 1 2 2 2 4 4 5 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Upas rolls 6 dice: 1 3 4 5 5 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Keth rolls 9 dice: 1 2 2 2 3 5 5 5 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Eclipse rolls 14 dice: 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Hellborn rolls 12 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 6 (5 Hits) <Verified>
<OOC> Hellborn says, "Elemental on 17."
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 1 1 2 2 4 5 5 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 1 1 2 2 4 5 5 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 2 2 2 3 4 4 5 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 1 2 2 2 5 5 5 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 5 (1 Hit) GLITCH!!! <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 3 3 4 4 4 5 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 2 3 5 5 6 6 6 6 (6 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
<OOC> Cobalt says, "Ok, Hellborn, Bubblegum, Eclipse, Elemental, Ghoul 8, Keth, Ghouls 1 - 5 & 9, Upas and Sparrow, Ghoul 6"

(To: Sparrow and Cobalt) Keth pages: << I know we don't know these guys too well..heck, not any of them 'sides Bubble, but if we run they're just gonna run after us, or go after the others, who prolly aren't faster..but they are packin'.>>

(To: Keth and Cobalt) From afar, Sparrow looks around at the others quickly and sighs. <<...I know... this is gonna hurt..>>

GAME: Bubblegum rolls 11 dice: 1 1 1 4 4 4 4 5 6 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>

Hellborn waves his hand out towards the ghouls, "Kill those ... ghouls! Hurry!" The elemental blows a puff of smoke, nods, and turns to get to work. Order given, the bandaged man turns and quickly jogs after the corper. At the most he can protect him. At the least, he'll be around to collect something from the corpse as payment.

GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 (0 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Bubblegum rolls 10 dice: 1 1 1 2 4 5 5 5 5 6 (5 Hits) <Verified>
<OOC> Cobalt says, "Chunky salsa."

Bubblegum chews her gum calmly as she waits for the sewer noises to materialize... there! Ghouls start to pop up, and lickity split, the kid's finger presses down on the heavy trigger twice in quick succession, the hand-sized grenade launcher making two loud thudding noises, followed by two ear-splitting pops as two grenades detonate in the air amongst one group of ghouls, ripping them to shreds with deadly shrapnel clouds.
GAME: Eclipse rolls 18 dice: 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 6 6 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Eclipse rolls 16 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 (7 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Eclipse rolls 14 dice: 1 1 2 2 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 (8 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 1 1 3 3 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 2 3 4 6 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 1 1 3 4 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 1 3 4 4 6 6 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 2 3 5 5 5 5 6 6 (6 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 10 dice: 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 5 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 2 dice: 3 4 (0 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 8 dice: 1 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>

Eclipse lifts that rifle, aiming at each ghoul in succession. The trigger pulled for small short controlled bursts, ripping into the ghouls one by one. A limb here.. a leg there.. but they still manage to come towards the group.

GAME: Keth rolls 11 dice: 1 1 1 1 3 4 4 4 5 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Keth rolls 11 dice: 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 1 dice: 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 10 dice: 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 6 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Keth rolls 9 dice: 2 2 2 3 3 5 5 5 5 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 1 dice: 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 1 dice: 1 (0 Hits) CRITICAL GLITCH!!! <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 10 dice: 1 1 1 1 2 5 5 5 5 6 (5 Hits) <Verified>

Keth keeps his katana out for the ones that prepare to close, but before that he's able to finish off two of the ones full of lead with a couple well-aimed shots from his Predator IV. He keeps his eyes one the others left standing, knowing it's about to get ugly.

<OOC> Cobalt says, "Upas, I need another willpower roll

"
GAME: Upas rolls 4 dice: 3 3 4 5 (1 Hit) <Verified>
You paged Upas with 'HUNGRY! Like a force... you almost lose yourself that time.'.
From afar, Upas nods.

GAME: Upas rolls 10 dice: 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 6 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Upas rolls 8 dice: 2 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 1 3 4 4 4 (0 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 1 1 2 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 1 3 4 5 5 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Sparrow rolls 11 dice: 1 1 2 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 6 (5 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 2 2 5 6 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Sparrow rolls 11 dice: 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 15 dice: 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 3 dice: 3 5 5 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 4 dice: 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>

Upas's clawed paw quivers with the mana it holds. He man blinks, three times, and mumbles barely coherently, "Little lamb will go to sleep. Little lamb is mine to keep." With that, he pushes forth the clawed hand and envelops the three ghouls closest to Keth in a blanket of blackness the trio of cannibals stumble forth from, significally weakened. The man who cast the sorcerous weave faces the corporate slave and yells in a snarl, "Get away, cursed one!" moving his self a full dozen of yards from the man in slow steps, dragging ones that seem very forced.

Sparrow stands by the corper watching the three charging ghouls. After a moment's concentration she smiles and punches one fist into her open hand, then brings her foot down hard on the plasticrete. From under her feet, the ground seems to tremble, and a barely transparent shape begins to erupt from the street. Rock, brick, chunks of metal... it isn't very humanoid in form, but there's no mistaking what it is. With a wry sort of smile, she looks up at the mass of ground. "..don't let them touch him, would you please? Bury them if they get close." She points at the incoming ghouls.

GAME: Bubblegum rolls 17 Edge dice: 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6
GAME: --Rerolling 6's: 2 2 2 4 (4 Rerolled, 8 Total Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 1 1 3 4 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Bubblegum rolls 13 dice: 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 6 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 3 4 4 5 6 (2 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 1 2 3 4 5 5 5 6 (4 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Eclipse rolls 18 dice: 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 (6 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Eclipse rolls 16 dice: 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 (6 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 5 dice: 1 4 5 5 6 (3 Hits) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 2 dice: 2 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>
GAME: Cobalt rolls 9 dice: 1 1 1 3 4 4 4 4 6 (1 Hit) <Verified>

Bubblegum observes her handiwork with satisfaction as she blasts apart one group of ghouls. Seeing the rest too close to safely use her grenade launcher, she switches back to her right hand. She takes half a heartbeat to line up the perfect shot, and lets her gun kick, sending three perfect shots into one ghoul's cranium, casuing it to explode quite messily. Without missing a beat in her constant gum-chewing, she retargets, landing a solid body shot on the second ghoul, who topples to the ground alongside his fellow monster.

GAME: Upas rolls 4 dice: 2 3 3 5 (1 Hit) <Verified>
<OOC> Cobalt says, "Same as before, but weaker... now."

   The corper dives out of the way from the others as the ghoul comes for him, "Protect ME!" He shouts and brings his briefcase up like a shield, somehow... someway, he doesn't get touched by the ghoul before it is dispatched by more shots from so many guns... For the moment... things seem quiet...

Bubblegum lifts her guns and blows the recoil gas in self-satisfaction. "Not bad," she says to herself. She hops on her skateboard, not because she needs to, but because it's a more fun way to travel, and scoots the few meters over to the corper. "Ok grampa, pay up! You're still alive, you're not a ghoul, and I'm out a bunch of ammo!"

Keth keeps his sword and gun out as he looks around, not sure what the heck's gonna come out of the sewers, "And what the frag was that all about?" He says, the muffled some by his helmet..which he now realizes he had on the whole time.

Sparrow looks around attentively, watching for more ghouls or more anything else. Seeing nothing, she nods at the asphalt creature, which stays still where it is as its components settle slowly into an inert pile before fading away from view completely. Curtly she turns to the suit and smiles a reassuring smile. "You're fine, sir... you can relax now."

Hellborn quietly motions his fire elemental back to his side as he approaches the corper with the others. The kevlar mask is pulled gently over his head so he can get a good look at the man and his case.
   "Let ... me ... guess," Hellborn asks, "This ... thing ... responsible." The bandaged man points to the case the corper is carrying.

Upas is a good distance away from the ghouls ...and that guy. The blond man smiles brightly for just that fraction of a moment. His breath somewhat labored, he stands there, his legs shaking slightly. Sweat runs down from his temple and he brings up a kerchief to wipe at it in a reflexive manner. He snaps to his full height and lowers his chin, showing the polite smile now. He shakes his head repeatedly in the process and grumbles, "What is wrong here?" His eyes show nothing, thanks to the contacts he wears, but the remainder of his features bespeaks insecurity. He rolls his shoulders, shakes his head again and the expression stays, "What the fuck?" he says more or less to himself. Somewhat weakly, "Yeah, protect the la...wyer man."

GAME: Upas rolls 4 dice: 1 1 2 6 (1 Hit) GLITCH!!! <Verified>
<OOC> Cobalt suggests burning edge =/
Upas pages: Edge that!
You paged Upas with 'Ok it's weaker than before, but it's still there...'.

Eclipse looks around, holding her rifle losely but not completely off guard as she approaches the group now, "So.. who are you?", she asks the a slight frown as she then takes in the street curiously. She isn't stupid, she knows there might be something else besides.. if they really wanted the guy dead then they wouldn't stop now.

   There is no further sounds of ghouls or anything else coming for the moment. The corper looks at Hellborn, "What? No! This is just my briefcase!" He even goes to open it up and show that there's nothing but electronic papers and the like inside. There is absolutely nothing untoward about that briefcase." He then looks towards Bubblegum, "Of course! You saved me and there are..." He starts to count you all out. "Six of you... weren't there seven?" He hrmms.

GAME <+pay>: You have just modified Bubblegum's cash account by 4000. Reason given: WW Save the Corper!
GAME <+pay>: You have just modified Eclipse's cash account by 4000. Reason given: WW Save the Corper!
GAME <+pay>: You have just modified Hellborn's cash account by 4000. Reason given: WW Save the Corper!
GAME <+pay>: You have just modified Keth's cash account by 4000. Reason given: WW Save the Corper!
GAME <+pay>: You have just modified Sparrow's cash account by 4000. Reason given: WW Save the Corper!
GAME <+pay>: You have just modified Upas's cash account by 4000. Reason given: WW Save the Corper!

GAME <+karma>: You changed Bubblegum's Karma by 4 setting it at 21(9) for WW Save the Corper
GAME <+karma>: You changed Eclipse's Karma by 4 setting it at 4(4) for WW Save the Corper
GAME <+karma>: You changed Hellborn's Karma by 4 setting it at 24(9) for WW Save the Corper

Keth hurmphs as he pulls off his helmet, "Daiden's hiding out in the club..and that doesn't explain what a Suit is doing trapsing through the Redmond sewers..got a branch office down there?"

GAME <+karma>: You changed Keth's Karma by 4 setting it at 8( Cool

for WW Save the Corper
GAME <+karma>: You changed Sparrow's Karma by 4 setting it at 8( Cool

for WW Save the Corper
GAME <+karma>: You changed Upas's Karma by 4 setting it at 4(4) for WW Save the Corper

<OOC> Cobalt says, "There, everyone is paid... and can bail for sleep if they choose. Upas... you're out of Edge now... you might consider running for your life unless you want to eat him in front of all these runners..."

Bubblegum holsters both her guns at once. "Well, there's six now, one ran off. You better make sure this doesn't happen again, I like this club," she tells the man sternly. "Though if you need someone to go on a wild sewer hunt for monsters, I'm prolly your girl," she says with a grin, feeling the tingle of sweet adrenaline at the prospect.

Sparrow glances over at Keth and shakes her head quickly. Her helmet is still on.. was it on the whole time? Only now her visor is down too. She turns back to the man then. "That's a good question... I thought there were no Renraku offices in town?"

The corper looks around at everyone, "That's none of your business!" He says closing his briefcase after he pays everyone and he sniffs, "I paid you for your services... that's enough!" The corper turns and starts to walk down the street, apparently thinking he's in the safe as he calls up a taxi on his commlink.

Upas says loudly from the distance, "Yes, me." His voice still has traces of predatory to him. He tells the others pointedly, "There is something on that man or the ghouls that calls to my wolf in ways that are not good. Mr. Silvereyes, I have a line for you to pay me. Spirits guide you, all." He snorts and jogs away into the night.

Eclipse looks at the group and smirks, those creepy but cool looking eyes assessing everyone before turing to follow the Corper at a safe distance. She probably just wants to make sure he gets his ass in said taxi before anything else happens but either way she waits to see.

<OOC> Cobalt says, "Ok Upas, once out of visual range of him, the hunger pangs fade... in about an hour. It sucks for that hour tho"

Hellborn peers at the corper, narrowing his eyes. "Think ... he have ... something ... to hide," he comments to the others in the group.

<OOC> Cobalt says, "but it's not irresistable"
<OOC> Upas says, "There's yummy squatters on the way home. Wink

"

Sparrow pages: Also, I'd like to send a watcher spirit to follow the corper and tell me where he goes.

Apparently the corper hasn't learned his lesson, cuz as he waits... pale clawed hands reach out of a sewer grate and grab the corpers ankles and yank. There is a shout, a sickening wet thud and crunch, blood spills on the road and drains down into the grate as the corper is yanked into the darkness with bone crushing force....

Keth grunts and puts his helmet back on when Sparrow brings up Renraku, looking to her for a moment, "Better hope there isn't anymore ghouls wh..." He trails off as the corper is yanked down into the sewer grate, a little dumbfounded at the sight.

Eclipse yells, "SHIT!", as she rushes towards the grate where the corper disappeared. She hates when she's right and damns herself for letting him walk away from them.

Sparrow gasps and dashes forward too, uselessly of course. The asphalt spirit appears again and she turns to look at it. "Bring me back his body and everything he's got with him, could you? Especially this?" She holds up her comlink for the spirit to see it.

Hellborn blinks as the corper disappears. "He ... not ... run ... fast ... enough," he says as he shakes his head. "At least ... get paid ... first," Hellborn notes before asking, "Maybe we..." nodding to Sparrow, he turns to his elemental, "Protect ... that ... spirit. Help ... defeat ... enemies ... secure ... body. Do NOT ... burn body. Let other ... spirit... recover."

Bubblegum immediately leaps to the ready as she sees the corper get yanked, but even she's not fast enough. "Huh. Kind of thought this was going mystery on us, but I guess it turned out just plain ol' horror. Gore and guts, everyone dies." She yawns. Maybe the reason this young kid is such a hard-boiled killer is that she's never really internalized the difference between simvids and real life... She hops on her skateboard and starts to ride off home to her delightfully slummy little apartment. "Later guys, t-mail me if you figure out what happened, k?"

<OOC> Cobalt says, "for the sake of future plot... you get the comlink but the spirit says there's no body left cept this, and drops an ear."